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Monday, May 16, 2016

Obama
Contemptuous, Condescending, and Dismissive of Trump

Say what you will,President Obama is contemptuous, condescending of Donald Trump.Of Trump’s flamboyance and entertaining
style,Obama says,“We are in serious times, and this is a
really serious business. This is not a reality show.This is not entertainment. This is a really serious job.”His dismisses Trump’s tweets, “ I have not thoughts
on Mr. Tweet’s tweetsAs a general rule
I don’t pay attention to Mr. Trump’s tweets.”

Perhaps Obama should.Trump is running neck to nick with Hillary Clinton in swing states and
in some general election polls.And if
elected,Trump may undo much of Obama’s
foreign affairs,immigration, trade, and
health care legacies.

Self-Righteousness
and Sense of Seriousness

But dismissal of Trump as an unserious man is in keeping
with Obama’s self-righteousness.He is
certain he is right,and Trump and Republicans are wrong and have
no substance.Obama is contemptuous in his certainty.In his mind, as H.L Menchen once said, “The public
demands certainties.”There are no
certainties, except Trump’ lack of seriousness and gravitas.

But Obama reeks of self-righteous certainty,as evidence by history of passing ObamaCare
without a single Republican vote andhow
he and his alter ego and speech writer,Ben Rhodes,sold the Iran
Deal,They sold it by hiding how long
the deal had been in the works and by announcing their position with frequent emailsto 20 influential journalists to create an “echo
chamber” effect that the deal was sealed and agreed upon by all parties.According to Rhodes, said to be in a “mind
melt” with the President, he and Obama chose this approach because the top
journalists “literally knew nothing” compared to Rhodes and his highness.

Arrogance
and Ignorance

In his Rutgers commencement speech last week,Obama was not only self-righteous,he was downright arrogant, when indirectly but
obviously referring to Trump, he declared “Ignoranceis not a virtue.”

When he said this he might have been thinking of Goldwater’s
overwhelming defeat when he said,“Extremism
in the defense of liberty is no vice.And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” The idea is to
label Trump and his followers as a bunch of “crazies, ” as the electorate in
1964 perceived Goldwater to be.

Trump’s ignorance, according to Obama,ishis
lack of grasp of substantive details,his
building of wall in a global economy with its inevitable trans border migration
and transfer of knowledge, his policies
of isolation and hostility towards international trade,his denial of Islamic immigration, his bias towards women and minorities, his denial and distortion of facts, science,
and simple logic in the global warming debate.

“Facts”
in Eyes of Beholders and Intellectuals

“Facts,”of course, are in the eyes of the beholder.There are “intellectuals” on both sides of
the political aisle,There arebusiness intellectuals as well as progressive
intellectuals, and yes, even populist intellectuals, who believe you must
listen to the people.Brain power is not
restricted to one ideological groups.

No one group has a
hammerlock on intellect or the proper course of action, whether they be a Harvard Law school graduateturned social organizer turned politician or
a Wharton Business Schoolmanturned politician.

Action
Not Words

Americans want action, not words, to spur economic growth and
to restore pride in America.People want
to reduce the national debt, which has doubled under Obama.People want health care they can afford. People want security,And they will vote for someone who will take
action to achieve these things.

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